Comments

Comment by elyerith

This is looking to be the ideal Blood DK weapon come next raiding tier with its natural mastery and mastery on blue socket.

Comment by tylerz2

This has a higher ILvL than the polearm and sword of the same tier. This has a 496 while the other two have a 489. Could explain the socket. Could also mean that this might be from an end boss as well.

Comment by Caelestes

Can't wait to PWN some a s s e s with this little baby :)

Comment by Zoeteklem

Very similar to Experimental Specimen Slicer, except for the slot color/mastery bonus. This will be one of those weapons that any melee 2h'er will go for, but is not itemized optimally for any one specific. This is of course a raid drop on the MoP new expansion, so there will be in all likelihood better options down the road.

Comment by zknm7

Model updated since I was last here. This axe looks absolutely sick. And a hydraulic socket? Whoa...

Comment by theondry

I'm thinking Blizz *really* loves their orcs with all the axes going on.

Yes, I am bitter, because I detest using axes on my DK. I much prefer swords.

I'm even more bitter as this seems like a rather crummy tanking weapon. Mastery is nice and all, and I know we get bubbles even if we miss, but I'd rather not miss at all. (Yes, I know we can gem, etc, but that doesn't make up for how much I dislike axes.)

Comment by Thibor

This weapon will be used for the legendary quest chain when Mists of Pandaria hits. The socket (called Sha-touched in-game, but Hydraulic on Wowhead.) What's noticable about this weapon:

No "normal" gems can be put into it. (read normal as any gem a JC can make.)

Only gems from the legendary quest are able to be placed into the socket.

Now this part is mainly personal opinion. It seems as if Blizzard is happy with standardizing stats in MoP. Much like Hand of Morchok and Souldrinker, they like for items to appeal to multiple roles. This item appeals to all strength plate DPS, as well as Blood DK's. Now, while this item is very nice for Blood DK's, the 500 strength does very little* for them. If you are a progression based guild, I would suggest allowing your DPS grab this first, but I won't tell you how to play the game.

*for blood DK's, strength gives parry and threat, but the parry gained from strength is very little, and unless threat is a main issue like blizzard wanted to make it in Cata, the strength is unused.

Comment by Mowmow924

One of nine "Sha-touched" weapons. That is, a weapon that can be socketed with a "Sha-touched" gem.These weapons also have a higher item level than other gear in the tier.Seven of them are dropped in Terrace of Endless Spring while the other two are dropped in Heart of Fear

Comment by zknm7

This axe is "the" 2h strength Legendary for the first tier of Mists.... It is considered to be a "legendary" because of its ability to accept the new legendary +500 strength gem. Speaking as a guy who has a fury warrior, ret paladin and 2 dk tanks, I really think Blizz has made a mistake by not putting a 2h mace with mastery on it into the first tier of Mists raiding. I say this because the only other raiding 2h weapon is the 2h sword Starshatter off of Elegon, and Starshatter is a crit/exp weapon, which is essentially worthless for blood dks as far as itemization goes. So Shin'ka here is the only 2h weapon with mastery on it, making it the only real viable dk tank weapon, and yet it is also several ilvl's higher than a comparable Starshatter, which when combined with the fact that it accepts the legendary gem makes it easily BiS for every plate 2h dps class as well as blood dk's.... I guess what I'm saying is that dk tanks should have another weapon available to them from raid content besides this. This weapon drops from the final boss in Terrace of Endless Spring, the Sha of Fear, and Starshatter drops off of the fifth boss in Mogu'shan Vaults, Elegon. Blizzard should have made a 2h mace with mastery that dropped off of one of the first 2-3 bosses in the Heart of Fear raid (there are no 2h strength weapons in Heart of Fear, and there is no 2h strength mace in Mists entire first raiding tier) to give raiders that use 2h weapons, both dk tank and dps classes, a weapon early on in content to boost dps and dk tank effectiveness, much like Akirus off of Magmaw in Blackwing Descent. This strategy made sense then and it makes sense now: The 2h sword dropped off of the last boss in BWD, Nefarian, and the 2h axe dropped off of the "last" (not counting Heroic-only Sinestra) boss in Bastion of Twilight, Cho'gall. Since these two weapons were difficult to obtain Blizz made Akirus much easier to obtain in order to boost tank effectiveness and dps effectiveness, as stated earlier. Blizz, please put a 2h mace with mastery on it in the Heart of Fear raid, it will save a lot of qq'ing among plate dps classes and dk tanks when the Sha of Fear is killed and this awesome weapon drops :)

Comment by Iroared

This thing just appeared on BMAH.. are they kidding us?

Comment by warconz

So... when you put the socket into the weapon does it turn into a legendary or what? I'm a bit confused with this whole legendary thing.

Comment by Ozmonite

Will this drop in LFR as well? If yes, with what itemlevel?

Comment by S3xG0d

Not seeing a "Disenchants To..." tab pleases me greatly.

Comment by Terrassen

Just like the most items in the Pandaria raiding, the base model construction is "borrowed" by previous item(s) in the game. This one which is most probably from Shadowmourne.